BGEA: Is looking at pornography wrong in God's eyes?

Is looking at pornography wrong in God's eyes? I admit I've gotten hooked on it through the Internet (which my wife doesn't know about) but I'm not sure I see anything wrong with it. Do you? — M.M.

The fact that you are keeping this from your wife should give you the answer. If it isn't right in your wife's eyes (which I'm sure it isn't), how can it be right in God's eyes?

The Internet has brought many good things into our lives—but (like any other technological advancement) it also has opened the door to much that is evil. Right at the top of the list is pornography, which is now so accessible that millions of people have become addicted and enslaved by it.

Pornography is wrong in God's eyes, and it will become a cancer in your soul that will destroy you if you aren't careful. Pornography appeals to our lusts, and turns what God has created into something selfish and demeaning. The Bible is clear: "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you" (2 Corinthians 6:17).

My prayer is that you will make a clean break with this habit and commit yourself instead to purity in your mind and heart. But more than that, commit your life to Christ. Right now, God has no place in your life. But you need His forgiveness and His salvation. You also need His Spirit living in you in order to resist temptation. Open your heart to Christ today, for "the blood of Jesus ... purifies us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

9 Comments

Babu says 3.23.2013, 05:34 a.m.

It is simple; when you walk through a road, you would find dirt and other things around, would you walk through it or walk away from it and walk through the clean path ahead. If you purposely walk into the dirt, it would make you dirty so get away

james one says 3.6.2013, 7:59 p.m.

k9 web protection is good helping me resist porn and it is free

Thomas says 1.18.2013, 6:53 p.m.

Pretty much what I thought. I know that I'm a reborn child of God but instead of praying when times get hard I turn to Porn. Even knowing that it will leave me empty, I hate my life.

me says 10.8.2012, 4:43 p.m.

I am a woman of God, I believe that I am saved through blood of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Something happened i don't where it came from? one i found myself watching pornography. What happened is it because i am single? No excuse.

Slow Mashala says 6.18.2012, 1:10 p.m.

thanks, this is just What i needed to read, and Ive been ignorant Cause My conscious was telling me that What I'm doing was wrong every time i Look At porn. God Bless.

guy says 4.13.2012, 2:47 p.m.

i am an elderly person. i am new even to internet usage .i was thoroughly surprised and shocked to find out about the free availability of porn material on web. even for me it is very difficult to forget a bout it and get away from it completely.

dusty says 2.15.2012, 07:48 a.m.

thanks to God pornography is out of my home

Andy says 9.7.2011, 7:49 p.m.

I think he means that since that person is so addicted to pornography, that it replaced God's place in that person's life. So I think Billy Graham is trying to show him that if he accepts God into his life again, that he can be saved from this addiction.

TC says 1.15.2011, 11:49 a.m.

I noticed that you commented "Right now, God has no place in your life. But you need His forgiveness and His salvation." Are you saying that a person that falls into the porn trap is not saved? If they do were they never saved to begin with?